please log in to view this image Thursday 3rd April 8pm Premier League Stamford Bridge No injury news yet following the international break. Mudryk is suspended for the hosts after failing a drug test. Lineups for each side's last league game: Spurs: Vicario; Spence, Romero, Davies, Udogie; Bentancur, Gray, Bissouma; Johnson, Solanke, Tel. Subs: Kinsky, Porro, van de Ven, Bergvall, Sarr, Maddison, Son, Odobert, Scarlett. League form: WWWLDL. Chelsea: Sanchez; Fofana, Colwill, Badiashile, Cucurella; James, Caicedo; Sancho, Fernandez, Nkunku; Neto. Subs: Jorgensen, Bettinelli, Gusto, Acheampong, Adarabaiyo, Chalobah, Lavia, Dewsbury-Hall, George. League form: WLLWWL. Ref: Craig ****ing Pawson. VAR: Jarred ****ing Gillett (AUS). TV: Sky Sports. Why the **** are we playing Thursday, Sunday, again? How would you like to line up for this one and how do you think we actually will line up?
Good grief I hate this fixture. More than Arsenal away. Horrible horrible fixture that will end inevitably in a painful defeat. I'm opening the cave early on Thursday. We've lined the walls with asbestos rich lead to keep out any signal, if you want to avoid the pain.
We'll lose for sure, sadly. Mind you, it's even more certain this season. But to brighten the mood, I will always remember the game in (I think) 70/71 season. Fairly even game in pouring rain and we scored twice in the last five minutes. Mullery and Pearce, if I remember correctly. Running the gauntlet of the Chav thugs after the game was challenging....
Yes...I was at that one too. My dad was a Chelsea fan so we were in the home family enclosure so I couldn't celebrate too much.
I hate them with a passion. Where "passion" doesn't adequately sum up how much I hate them. The most impressive thing they've done IMHO is make me hate them more than teams I should be hating. I am massively understating my opinion to say they are ****s. I can't think of football related stuff to say about this fixture because of this hatred. They have just continually got away with every dodgy thing they have attempted. Even worse was when Chelski finished and I hoped there was some payback they got baled out by some other ****s for more than they are worth, who then proceeded to continue their ****ish behaviour.
'778 '78 at their place. We ****ing tore it apart. Chelsea fans got battered and a very welcome 3-1 win, too.
The feeling is not mutual. You have middle brother syndrome when it comes to London, you Spurs fans Arsenal are the big brother, they became known first and achieved a lot, and we both looked up to them and tried to emulate them despite our, shall we say, less than savoury behaviour. Spurs are the middle brother, they hate both their older and younger brothers, in Arsenal and Chelsea. But they have a grudging admiration for Arsenal, because they were always the ones to beat and they set the standard. Spurs were always the upstanding ones, the underdogs, the visually moral ones. When Chelsea met and exceeded Arsenal's standard first, the feeling of being leapfrogged and usurped basically sent Spurs into a jealous rage from which they have never recovered and our ability to turn your squad into a gibbering wreck every time we play you, even when we dont win, is something that has always fascinated me. I think part of why Spurs hate Chelsea so much is that, unlike Arsenal, we have never taken our rivalry with you seriously. You'll grab a victory here and there, and we dont begrudge you it, no one can win all the time. But Spurs are just viewed as tragic also rans, by a majority of us. While the rest of the footballing world just gets on with it, Spurs just wont let "it" go. I am not sure exactly what "it" is, am not sure even Spurs fans do either. Yes Chelsea have been **** houses at times, but thats affected everyone in football equally, but Spurs seem to be the only ones who cant seem to get over it. Spurs always need something, anything, to have over their perceived rivals, and when that cant be trophies, it has to be something else......so righteousness it is.
Nice essay but we hate you because a huge number of your fans are colossal twats and your club ruined football permanently.
And we wouldnt know about your fans, because we dont care I think Sky and Man United started the ball rolling on that front.......
Kings Rd FC = Spanners + more money. Chelsky = Kings Rd FC + post USSR collapse oligarch dirty money.
Where as one could say Spurs = Spanners + erm........a nicer stadium? (your stadium is dope by the way, to use modern slang, visited it a few weeks ago)
A modern take, which has little resemblance to the pre-Abramovic era. Traditionally, from at least the early 60's, Chelsea s and their fans hated Tottenham far, far more than we were bothered with them. Until '55, Chelsea had won nothing on 50 years. It took another 15 to win the first FA Cup. Spurs had 7 by the time Chelsea won another. Chelsea we're then in the position we occupy - lacking success on the pitch, whilst filling a stadium. We had Arsenal as our rivals, Chelsea had....Fulham who have also won **** all. Until the dodgy money started to flow, Chelsea were a slightly bigger QPR or West Ham, with more and much nastier supporters. Anyone who was going to football in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's won't recognise your reality one little bit. Go back to the '67 Cup Final, '72 League Cup Semi, '75 relegation 4 pointer, '78 league games, '82 FA Cup Qtr Final to see how things really were...and the 3-3 Cup game at SB in 2008(?). That's what we're talking about.
All of those happened before I was born. Jeez how old are you guys? I forget the age of people on Not606 in general is like 50-60+ I was born in 83 and started going to football in the mid 90's, by that time we were in that run of victories against you and started winning trophies in the late 90's (FA Cup 97, League Cup 98, Cup Winners Cup 98, FA Cup 2000, all before Roman), so yeah my view of things is definitely dictated by the time period, for sure. I will concede that. My dad, for example, hated Leeds to **** and I was always like "Why?" I have no ill will towards Leeds, but he explained to me about how things were in the 70's with Leeds under Revie.
You missed real football. It's completely changed...very little of it for the better. The stadiums are full but mostly, it's dead inside. The cost is prohibitive and the entertainment is dying on its arse. Very few of the Chelsea boys, who I used to drink with, bother going at all, anymore. Most of the old Spurs lads go to pubs in the Totte ham area to watch matches on TV and travel to Europe or away fixtures. Ask your dad, if still around, the difference is like night and day, sadly. Now, I only watch Spurs. I can't even be bothered to watch England and I grew up in Wembley and used to go to them all back in the day.
